{"product_id":"tales-of-the-city-a-study-of-narrative-and-urban-life-hardback-9780521623346","title":"Tales of the City; A Study of Narrative and Urban Life (Hardback) 9780521623346","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTales of the City\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Study of Narrative and Urban Life\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 1998 anthropological study uses narrative and urban theory to analyse a range of stories about the city.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRuth Finnegan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521623346, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 October 1998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e228 pages, 10 b\/w illus.  4 maps\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.6 x 1.4 cm, 0.5 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Finnegan is an expert in the field of narrative, as she knowledgeably summarises the academic discussion on the categories of story and narrative in a wide range of disciplines …'. Anthropos\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHow do we picture urban life and formulate our experience of it? Tales of the City, first published in 1998, brings together the academics' abstract tales with the vivid stories about a particular city, Milton Keynes, and the often moving self-narrations of its residents. It explores the role of story-telling processes for the creative constructing of experience, with particular attention to personal narrations. The story that is now emerging, told by many individual actor narrators, is of the city as a natural setting for human life, in stark contrast to the pessimistic anti-urban tales of many academic narrators. Drawing on narrative studies, cultural and linguistic anthropology and social theory, Professor Finnegan skilfully examines the narrative conventions and cultural implications of our multiple tales of the city, and relates them to profound mythic themes about urban life, community, and to the creative role of the active, reflecting individual.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Opening: 1. Story: 'the orders by which we live our lives'\u003cbr\u003e Part II Stories of Cities and of a City: 2. Abstract tales: the narrative in urban theory\u003cbr\u003e 3. Storying the concrete city: cows, gardens and other urban tales\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Storied Lives and Urban Experience: 4. Stories and lives: the lates of individual urban dwellers\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'That's my story': narrative conventions in personal tales\u003cbr\u003e 6. Personal narratives and urban images\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Ending: 7. Whose stories of the city?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20anthropology,%20ethnography%20%5BJHMC%5D%22\"\u003eJHMC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46129286545688,"sku":"9780521623346","price":54.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521623346i.jpg?v=1691666554","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/tales-of-the-city-a-study-of-narrative-and-urban-life-hardback-9780521623346","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}